So is the end-goal: bosses often use voluntary redundancy as a consensual way to cut headcount but the assumption is usually that they want the organisation itself to survive.
So layoffs and retrenchments are similar, except that retrenchment is often looked at, technically, as more permanent, and layoffs, as I mentioned, might be temporary.
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When we see this happen all the time that the bottom of the roster players are playing vital roles on playoff runs just because of the attrition of the season.
And if you think it's tough for instrumentalists, what about dancers? Each dance class at Juilliard starts small, 24 students or so, and gets even smaller, through attrition.
The Trump administration last week sent reductions in force notices, otherwise known as RIFs, to about 4,000 employees at more than half a dozen federal agencies.